
The Great Idle Man of the Zhenguan Era
贞观大闲人
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- Completed
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- 3.3M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Jin-Sui-Tang Dynasties
- Updated
- 3y ago
- English
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The female lead, whose story had been tedious for over two hundred chapters, suddenly becomes a nun, and a minor, almost nonexistent character takes over the role. It's undeniably explosive in any genre of online novel. I'm curious about the author's mental state at the time.
[Comment] I love that old thief!
I really don't understand how a man who has to ask his wife for money to buy cigarettes could be so shameless as to write so many shameless historical novels. My idiot buddy, I love him so much!!!
Honestly, when I heard the storyteller suggest sending a princess to Songtsen Gampo, I immediately sensed something was wrong. For such a vast dynasty to need a woman to maintain peace was truly disgusting, especially since this idea came from someone with a modern mindset like the protagonist. It made me even more utterly disgusted.
I dropped the show when Princess Dongyang became a nun. Watching them so sweetly in love was really heartwarming, but when they broke up, I felt like I'd eaten shit... Well, I've never actually eaten shit... 🙏 Dropped it.
I don't understand why so many people are defending you. In a feudal dynasty, a commoner refuses an official position—and it's an imperial edict? The author's thinking is quite unique. Okay, fine, he refuses. But why did you have the protagonist invent papermaking and movable type printing? Do you think the protagonist's brain is superfluous?
Well, you can't treat this as a wish-fulfillment story because it's genuinely frustrating. The protagonist copied a few poems, invented movable type printing, and that's about it. In short, despite being a transmigrator, he doesn't have the ability to change anything or have any impact on history.
[Comment] No way, only one update again today?
Actually, the old thief already had a draft in mind, so why won't he update more? Even though I know you're not in good health, it just doesn't feel like enough!
To be honest, it's readable if you have nothing else to read, but it does have many flaws. I've already read over 400 chapters, and here are my observations based on several high-quality historical novels I've read in recent years: 1. The influence of public sentiment and morale isn't portrayed; it's just self-indulgent sentimentality and forced emotional expression. There's no other description.
It's just another political intrigue novel. The protagonist develops something, gets kidnapped by powerful figures, recites a few poems by later generations, then his talent is discovered by the emperor, then he's framed by those powerful figures, then he does a lot of good for the Tang Dynasty, and finally, the emperor can behead him with a single word. There's no point in reading these kinds of novels anymore.
Historical time-travel novels include those with a single female lead and those with multiple female leads. But I've never seen one where the female lead changes midway through!!! This is truly eye-opening. 😅